New York City public schools are now offering Plan B, the morning-after pill, to girls as young as 14 years old. Taking this pill keeps a girl from becoming pregnant if she takes it within 72 hours of having sex. The school leaders say that this is the best way to prevent teen pregnancies. Parents can sign a form to keep their daughter from taking part in the program if they want to. If parents allow their daughters to participate, she can get the pill whenever she wants to without her parents knowing about it. So far, only 1 to 2 percent of parents have prevented their daughters from receiving the pill.
This seems like a crazy idea to me! We can’t take any kind of medicine at school without permission from our parents. It just can’t be right for a girl to get this kind of pill without her parents knowing about it. This is really powerful medicine! They say they have more than 7,000 teen pregnancies in New York City each year. Most of those end in abortions. Instead of just giving them a pill, maybe someone should be talking to them about waiting until marriage.
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